El Autobus Azul: Handmade Papers from Costa Rica LIMITED EDITON
Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2008.
Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. This anniversary edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, reissues the proto-origin of Heavenly Monkey press, publisher Rollin Milroy’s first letterpress book: El Autobus Azul, an essay introduction to a sample of handmade papers from a 1998 vacation to Costa Rica. "All ten copies sold in a week, and it has remained one ofthe most requested (and least seen) of my books." This anniversary edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, was set as in the original and printed from polymer plates by David Clifford at Black Stone Press; each copy includes 4 tipped-in paper samples from the original sheets, plus a linocut Milroy created for the 1998 edition, but never used, here adorning both frontispiece and front cover.
Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, of which this is 34. 2 7/8" X 2 1/4". Bound in printed paper over boards, with an "autobus azul" to upper board and spine lettered in kind. This copy retains the publishers' protective paper label, with pencilled "34." Faint whiff of cigar smoke, else fine. Very good +. Item #15379
Price: $275.00